Himi Line Fushiki Station freight yard

[bill937ca]

I was scrolling through a blog when I came across a unique set of photos of Himi Line Fushiki Station freight yard.  This seems to be a graveyard for old blue WAMU, blue WAMU bodies, WAMU  wheels, the hulk of old  Manyosen tram 7062 and two other trams.

 

 

http://finecraft-ekicho.blogspot.ca/2015/12/1035.html

 

http://finecraft-ekicho.blogspot.ca/2015/12/1034.html

[cteno4]

thanks bill, interesting boneyard to model! i can see this as a great use for all the scrap tomytec parts!

 

i should have ordered a few extra of the WAMU bodies when they were on sale last year at HLJ! but being re-released soon and i can use the wheel sets on the tomytec, so that saves a couple bucks a car there!

 

jeff

[Densha]

I wonder of what type the diesel shunters are. I couldn't find any information on them in the photos or the blog post.

[cteno4]

this little guys looks pretty close

 

http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10351905

 

http://www.modeltrainplus.net/collections/aru-nine-arumo-n-scale/products/aru-nine-center-cab-diesel-locomotive

 

jeff

[Nick_Burman]

I wonder of what type the diesel shunters are. I couldn't find any information on them in the photos or the blog post.

 

They look like standard Hitachi industrial shunters.

 

Cheers NB

[katoftw]

Shame to see the trams rotting away.

[Das Steinkopf]

They do tend to turn up in some rather interesting places, predominantly in freight yards or former freight yards, I know there is at least a dozen or so sprinkled around in various sidings at Ajikawaguchi freight terminal in Osaka, I have a picture of one in the background that I took from the train as I was headed to Universal Studios, the paint had faded a fair bit. I recently found some WAMU 80000 bodies at a former yard in Hekinan near the cement works, there are a couple of redundant containers there that are used for storage, speaking of containers I found an interesting example of them being used for storage space at a small locomotive depot attached to a freight yard in Handa.

 

 

 

 

 

Edited April 23, 2016 by Das Steinkopf

[cteno4]

Love the ad hoc roof over the containers! thanks

 

Jeff

[yakumo381]

On 22/04/2016 at 9:47 PM, bill937ca said:

I was scrolling through a blog when I came across a unique set of photos of Himi Line Fushiki Station freight yard.  This seems to be a graveyard for old blue WAMU, blue WAMU bodies, WAMU  wheels, the hulk of old  Manyosen tram 7062 and two other trams.

 

 

http://finecraft-ekicho.blogspot.ca/2015/12/1035.html

 

http://finecraft-ekicho.blogspot.ca/2015/12/1034.html

Going by this Google Earth shot (image capture date September 2017), they had / still have a lot of WAMU to get through. Also if you wander around in streetview, from the road on the other side of the yard there is a fleeting image of what could have been a pink EF81being scrapped.

 

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@36.7930234,137.0600606,3a,75y,143.09h,86.54t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sGKrzlZWOdkDZ5dm1XjWmHA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656te

 

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@36.7923996,137.0607314,3a,90y,297.63h,88.66t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s4d0oHXp18qV1Z0RmOimXBw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Edited December 17, 2017 by yakumo381